Modern Slavery Policy

This Modern Slavery Policy represents Perkbox’s direction to the business on this topic. Compliance with this policy is mandatory through aligning Perkbox processes and people behaviours to the commitments below.

This statement is made pursuant to section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and sets out the steps that Perkbox has taken and is continuing to take to ensure that modern slavery or human trafficking is not taking place within our business or supply chain.

Modern slavery encompasses slavery, servitude, human trafficking and forced labour. Perkbox has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of modern slavery. We are committed to acting ethically and with integrity and transparency in all business dealings and to putting effective systems and controls in place to safeguard against any form of modern slavery taking place within the business or our supply chain.

This statement applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, contractors and suppliers.

Perkbox strictly prohibits the use of modern slavery and human trafficking in our operations and supply chain. We have and will continue to be committed to implementing systems and controls aimed at ensuring that modern slavery is not taking place anywhere within our organisation or in any of our supply chains. We expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.

Policies & Commitments

Policies

We operate a number of internal policies to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner. These include:

  1. Recruitment policy. We operate a robust recruitment policy, including conducting eligibility to work in the UK checks for all employees to safeguard against human trafficking or individuals being forced to work against their will.
  2. Whistleblowing policy. We operate a whistleblowing policy so that all employees know that they can raise concerns about how colleagues are being treated, or practices within our business or supply chain, without fear of reprisals.
  3. Employee Handbook. The handbook explains the way we behave as an organisation and how we expect our employees to act.

Commitments

  • We shall be a company that expects everyone working with us or on our behalf to support and uphold the following measures to safeguard against modern slavery
  • We have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery in our organisation and our supply chains.
  • The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery in any part of our organisation or supply chain is the responsibility of all those working for us or on our behalf. Workers must not engage in, facilitate or fail to report any activity that might lead to, or suggest, a breach of this policy
  • We are committed to engaging with our stakeholders and suppliers to address the risk of modern slavery in our operations and supply chain
  • We take a risk-based approach to our contracting processes and keep them under review. We assess whether the circumstances warrant the inclusion of specific prohibitions against the use of modern slavery and trafficked labour in our contracts with third parties. Using our risked based approach, we will also assess the merits of writing to suppliers requiring them to comply with this Statement, which sets out the minimum standards required to combat modern slavery and trafficking

Consistent with our risk-based approach we may require:

Employment and recruitment agencies and other third parties supplying workers to our organisation to confirm their compliance with our Statement

  • Suppliers engaging workers through a third party to obtain that third parties’ agreement to adhere to the Policy
  • As part of our ongoing risk assessment and due diligence processes we will consider whether circumstances warrant us carrying out audits of suppliers for their compliance with our Policy
  • If we find that other individuals or organisations working on our behalf have breached this policy we will ensure that we take appropriate action. This may range from considering the possibility of breaches being remediated and whether that might represent the best outcome for those individuals impacted by the breach to terminating such relationships

Version History

Creation date: 2nd February 2018

Latest version: 6th September 2023

Owner: Bhavna Purmah, Legal Counsel

Approval: Rob Gorle, Finance Director